The magnificent five are riding into town!
Armed with over 100 instruments, these brilliant musicians perform a fistful of Ennio Morricone classics from the movies that made Clint Eastwood a star.
The stunning soundtracks include The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon a Time in The West.
This ingenious gang of comic maestros underscore these iconic compositions with hilarious sound effects... blowing on bottles, crushing cornflakes, ‘playing' coathangers, apples, squeaky toys, rubbergloves, bicycle pumps, nailclippers and many more - recreating every punch up, gunshot, and jangling spur that define the gun slinging west.
Audiences across the world have been amazed and enthralled by this international sensation.
Not to be missed.
Click on this link to see the Orchestra's performance on BBC TV's Later with Jools Holland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVzjvRbv8xw
USEFUL LINKS
www.youtube.com/sworchestra
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western
www.enniomorricone.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Leone
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
2012
UK & IRELAND TOUR 7th Feb - 18 Mar 2012
Tue 7 Feb, 7.45pm BRIGHTON Theatre Royal
Tickets: 0844 871 7650 www.atgtickets.com/brighton
Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm OXFORD New Theatre
Tickets: 0844 871 3020 www.atgtickets.com/oxford
Thu 9 Feb, 8.00pm BRISTOL St George's
Tickets: 0845 40 24 001 www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk
Fri 10 Feb, 7.30pm LLANDUDNO Venue Cymru
Tickets: 01492 872000 www.venuecymru.co.uk
Sun 12 Feb, 7.30pm CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Tickets: 01223 357 851 www.cornex.co.uk
Mon 13 Feb, 7.30pm WIMBLEDON New Wimbledon Theatre
Tickets: 0844 871 7646 www.atgtickets.com/wimbledon
Wed 15 Feb, 7.30pm YORK Grand Opera House
Tickets: 0844 871 3024 www.atgtickets.com/york
Fri 17 Feb, 5.00pm & 8.00pm SALFORD QUAYS The Lowry
Tickets: 0843 208 6010 www.thelowry.com/music
Sat 18 Feb, 7.30pm LEEDS Town Hall
Tickets: 0113 224 3801 www.leedsconcertseason.com
Sun 19 Feb, 7.30pm SUNDERLAND Empire Theatre
Tickets: 0844 871 3022 www.sunderlandempire.org.uk
Wed 22 Feb, 7.30pm KILLARNEY INEC Theatre
Tickets: 064 667 1555 www.inec.ie
Thu 23 Feb,7.30pm DUBLIN The Helix
Tickets: 01 700 7000 www.thehelix.ie
Fri 24 Feb, 8.00pm GALWAY The Black Box Theatre
Tickets: 091 569 777 www.tht.ie
Sat 25 Feb, 7.30pm CORK Opera House
Tickets: 021 427 0022 www.corkoperahouse.ie
Sun 26 Feb, 7.30pm BELFAST The Ulster Hall
Tickets: 028 9033 4455 www.ulsterhall.co.uk
Wed 29 Feb, 7.30pm BASINGSTOKE The Anvil
Tickets: 01256 844244 www.anvilarts.org.uk
Thu 1 Mar, 8.00pm COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre
Tickets: 024 7652 4524 www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Fri 2 Mar, 7.30pm NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall
Tickets: 0115 989 5555 www.trch.co.uk
Sat 3 Mar, 7.30pm STOKE ON TRENT Victoria Hall
Tickets: 0844 871 7649 www.atgtickets.com/stoke
Sun / Sul 4 Feb, 7.00pm, CARDIFF / CAERDYDD Wales Millennium Centre
Tickets: 029 2063 6464 wmc.org.uk
Tue 6 Mar, 7.30pm LIVERPOOL Empire Theatre
Tickets: 0844 871 3017 www.liverpoolempire.org.uk
Wed 7 Mar, 7.30pm LEICESTER De Monfort Hall
Tickets: 0116 233 3111 www.demontforthall.co.uk
Fri 9 Mar, 7.30pm GRIMSBY Auditorium
Tickets: 0844 871 3016 www.atgtickets.com/grimsby
Sat 10 Mar, 7.30pm FOLKSTONE Leas Cliff Hall
Tickets: 0844 871 3015 www.leascliffhall.co.uk
Sun 11 Mar, 7.30pm RICHMOND Theatre Royal
Tickets: 0844 871 7651 www.atgtickets.com/richmond
Mon 12 Mar, 7.30pm GLASGOW City Halls
Tickets: 0141 353 8000 www.glasgowconcerthalls.com
Tue 13 Mar, 7.30pm EDINBURGH Festival Theatre
Tickets: 0131 529 6000 www.fctt.org.uk
Wed 14 Mar, 7.30pm ABERDEEN Music Hall
Tickets: 01224 641122 www.boxofficeaberdeen.com
Fri 16 Mar, 7.30pm BIRMINGHAM Town Hall
Tickets: 0121 780 3333 www.thsh.co.uk
Sat 17 Mar, 8.00pm INVERNESS Eden Court Theatre
Tickets: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk
Sun 18 Mar, 6.00pm BRADFORD Eden Court Theatre
Tickets: 01274 432000 www.bradford-theatres.co.uk
PAST TOURING 2011/2012
LONDON
Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall
5th - 11th January 7:30pm
LONDON
12th August BBC Proms 2011 Royal Albert Hall
HONG KONG
3rd & 4th August Hong Kong International Arts Carnival
2010
MACAU
14 & 15 May Macau Arts Festival
LONDON
26 to 29 Oct Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall
FINLAND
2 Nov Lahti Sibelius Hall / 4 Nov Tampere Hall
FRANCE
9 Nov Enghien / 10 Nov Hazebrouck / 11 Nov Fouesnant / 12 Nov Rueil-Malmaison
13 Nov Sable Sur Sarthe / 14 Nov Coutances / 16 Nov Meudon
17 Nov Yutz / 18 Nov St Luce Sur Loire / 19 Nov Rouziers de Touraine
20 Nov Issoudon / 21 Nov Blayes les Mines / 23 Nov Maison Alfort
PAST TOURING - 2009
ATHENS
16 to 25 Sep Badminton Theater
NETHERLANDS and BELGIUM
28 Sep Stadsschouwburg, Ljmuiden / 29 Sep De Oosterpport, Groningen
30 Sep Cuultuurcentrum, Hasselt / 1 Oct Theater de Veste, Delft
2 Oct Frits Philips, Eindhoven / 3 Oct Purmaryn Theatre, Pumerend
4 Oct Stadsschouwberg, Brugge
LONDON and BRIGHTON UK
7 & 8 Oct QEH, Southbank Centre, London
9 & 10 Oct Brighton Corn Exchange
FRANCE
11 Oct Le Channel Calais / 13 Oct Salle Poirel, Nancy
14 Oct La Comete, Chalon en Campagne
15 Oct Espace Jacques Prevert, Savigny Le Temple
16 Oct Le Pin Galant, Merignac / 17 Oct La Ferme Du Bel Ebat Gyancourt
19 Oct Tourcoing Festival of Jazz / 20 Oct Corbeil Theatre
21 Oct Cite des Congres Nantes Atlantique, Nantes / 22 Oct Colombes/L’Avant Scene
23 Oct Taverny Cultural Centre / 24 Oct Theatre Firmin Gemier, La Piscine, Antony
ITALY
28 Nov to 8 Dec Ciak Theatre, Milan
10 Dec Saschall Theatre, Florence / 12 & 13 Dec Manzoni Theatre, Bologna
PAST TOURING - 2008
FRANCE
16 Sep to 11 Oct Cafe De la Danse, Paris
CANADA
17 to 19 Oct The Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
NORTH AMERICA
Oct to Nov - 3 week tour
The Spaghetti Western Orchestra premiered in 2007 and was the sell-out hit of The Montreal Jazz Festival. It then played L’Europeen Theatre in Paris, the St Pauli Theatre in Hamburg, the Koln Philharmonie and The Athenaeum Theatre In Melbourne. In 2008, the show returned to Montreal for the En Lumiere Festival at the Outremont Theatre.
Please contact info@ghmp.co.uk for tour enquiries.
CORPORATE/PRIVATE BOOKINGS
Spaghetti Western Orchestra has a shortened set available for these events. For more information please contact info@ghmp.co.uk
NEW LIVE SHOW CD AVAILABLE TO BUY HERE
THE MUSIC
The Maestro’s Music in the show.
All compositions by Ennio Morricone
The Man With The Harmonica from the film Once Upon A Time In The West
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly from the film of the same name
A Gringo Like Me from the film Gunfight At Red Sands
Farewell To Cheyenne from the film Once Upon A Time In The West
Chi Mai from the film Maddalena
A Fistful Of Dollars from the film of the same name
Valkyries from the film My Name Is Nobody
For A Few Dollars More from the film of the same name
Ecstasy of Gold from the film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Two Mules For Sister Sara from the film of the same name
Death Rides A Horse from the film of the same name
The Chase from the film A Fistful of Dollars
60 Seconds To What? from the film For A Few Dollars More
Duck You Sucker from the film A Fistful of Dynamite
Once Upon A Time In The West from the film of the same name
Marcetta from the film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
A Professional Gun from the film The Mercenary
THE ORCHESTRA PLAY:
Asthma Inhaler, Bass Recorder, Bassoon, Bells, Birdwings Sound Effect, Body Drop
Sound Effect, Bouncy Ball Pump, Castanets, Chickens Sound Effect, Child Sized
Boot, Claves, Coat Hangers (2), Concert Bass Drum, Concert Tom Toms, Cornflakes
(Small Packet and Large Packet), Creaky Door Sound Effect, Deck Of Cards, Double
Bass, Drum Kit, Dutch Clog & Tambourine Jingles, Egg Shakers, Electronic Sampler,
Fake Glasses, Film Canister, Bird Whistle, Finger Cymbals (2), Footsteps Sound Effect,
Frog Clicker, Harmonica (Working), Harmonica (Broken), Horseshoe, Jews Harps (6),
Kat Midi Controller (2 Octaves), Kitchen Knife with Sharpening Steel, Latchbolt Sound
Effect, Mandolin, Maracas (I Pair), Melodeon (2), Nail Clippers, Nail File, Ocarina, One
Note Saxophone, Orchestral Whip, Packaging Tape (1 Roll), Pan Pipes, Piano, Plastic
Bags (2), Policeman’s Whistle, Ratchet, Reel- To-Reel Tape Machine, Sticks And Twigs
(Locally Sourced), String Can, Suspended Cymbals, Synthesizer, Tam Tam, Tasmanian
Lottery Balls, Theremin, Timpani (3), Tin Whistle (5), Trumpet, Tuned Beer Bottles (11),
Two Tone Whistle, Ukulele, Vibraphone Wind Machine, Wooden Cowbells.
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Later with Jools Holland BBC TV
Spaghetti Western Orchestra performed on BBC TV's Later with Jools Holland.
The show was broadcast on Tuesday October 6th at 10pm BBC 2 and on Friday 9 October at 11.35pm on BBC 2 and BBC HD.
You can see the performance on YouTube - click the link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVzjvRbv8xw
Don't miss them playing The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Fistful of Dollars Medley.
Boris Conley is...THE GOLD SCHMELLER
Favourite Spaghetti Western Film Once Upon A Time In The West
Favourite Spaghetti Western Actor Eli Wallach
Favourite Line '…everybody here has become very rich or else they are dead'.
from Fistful of Dollars, spoken by the bell-ringer to the Man With No Name as he enters town.
WHY I LOVE THIS SHOW
"When we play the Morricone themes we imagine that we are in the world of the movies. Sometimes I look around on stage and see only four other performers and wonder how we make such a huge sound. I love playing the pipe organ solo from “For A Few Dollars More” where the audience can feel the basso profundo tones vibrating their seats”
BIOGRAPHY
After studies at the Canberra School of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts, Boris forged a career as a composer, musician and performer in theatre. His early experience in these roles included musical director of The Flying Fruit Fly Circus and the co-composition of the highly acclaimed music theatre piece Cho Cho San, an adaptation of the Madame Butterfly story.
He has composed the music for numerous visual theatre shows including The Reading Boy, Viva la Vida Frida and The Paperbag Princess for Handspan Theatre. For the Melbourne Theatre Company he played piano for Knuckledusters - The Gems of Edith Sitwell, and was the musician for Gulliver's Travels. Boris also composed Aqua, a dance piece for the Australian Ballet, and The Witch of Endor, a short opera for OzOpera.
As a performer he appeared on Frontline (ABC TV) and more recently in Chamber Made Opera's production of Phobia and in The Spaghetti Western Orchestra and The Session.
JESS CIAMPA is...THE LIETELLER
We are delighted that Jess is joing the Orchestra for the Autumn Tour 2009
Favourite Spaghetti Western Film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Favourite Spaghetti Western Actor Lee Van Cleef
Favourite Line 'In 10 minutes you'll be smoking in hell' Wild to Colonel Mortimer in For A Few Dollars More
BIOGRAPHY
Jess Ciampa intended to become a trumpet player but he switched to percussion and drums during his training years at the Sydney Conservatorium, where he graduated with a BMus.Ed. in 1986. A truly versatile and adaptable musician with multi-instrumental, vocal, and theatre skills, he is just as comfortable performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra or Australian Chamber Orchestra as he is with the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. Among his many credits are shows (Lion King, Miss Saigon, Jerry Springer:The Opera), bands (Tina Arena, Ian Moss, Monsieur Camembert), Latin groups (Espirito, Mucho Mumbo), soundtracks (Australia, Happy Feet, Walking With Dinosaurs), television (Australian Idol) and numerous projects with The Flying Fruit Fly Circus, including Fusion for the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, The Gift for the Vancouver Children's Festival and a six week season of The Gift at the New Victory Theatre on Broadway in NYC. He has played for thousands of children over the past 24 years as part of the Musica Viva Schools program, performing with Imbosima, Southern Crossings, and more recently with B'tutta and Zeeko.
Graeme Leak is...THE BANKTELLER
Favourite Spaghetti Western Film I can't name a favourite...I really can't!
Favourite Spaghetti Western Actor and Line Rod Steiger lives in my memory the longest, especially when he says to his young son during a coach robbery ‘How many times have I told you – no shooting unless Papa pulls the trigger!’ (from A Fistful of Dynamite)
WHY I LOVE THIS SHOW
"The show is full of wonderful moments for me and it’s hard to play favourites but performing the theme from Once Upon a Time in the West on Theremin is right up there. I imagine that I’m a ridiculously high soprano (I play the theme an octave or sometimes two higher than humanly possible) filling the auditorium with a beautiful alien voice. In general, I love the way we’ve managed as an ensemble over the years to bring what are usually considered non-musical performance elements (noises, sound effects, odd instruments, character gestures and movements, grunting even) together to make musical sense. The way Morricone combined the music of the soul with the music of the everyday in such a powerful way in the Spaghetti Western scores is still my primary inspiration".
BIOGRAPHY
Graeme Leak is a performer and composer with a background in percussion and drumming. He studied in Sydney and in 1985 he lived and studied in New York. His activities range from composing to contemporary music performance to self-devised solo shows to workshop leading to conducting to instrument making. In 2001 he led over 500 bell ringers in a massed performance for the closing of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. In 2003 he completed an outback project for the Queensland Music Festival where he designed, built and led the locals in playing a Musical Fence (now a popular tourist attraction). In 2005 he wrote and directed The Incredible Hulls, a work for a floating 'orchestra' of up to 100 boats and in 2006 he wrote and directed the closing Finale for a 'superstar' World Percussion Spectacular at the Commonwealth Games. His latest work Ringing the Changes for aerial swing-pole performers is currently toured by Melbourne company Strange Fruit.
Shannon Birchall is...THE YOUNGFELLER
We are delighted that Shannon is joining the Orchestra for the Autumn Tour 2009
Favourite Spaghetti Western Film Once Upon A Time in the West
Favourite Character Cheyenne (Jason Robards)
Favourite Lines
Yeah go on, play harmonica. Play so you can't bullshit. Only watch those false notes.
and
You know Jill, you remind me of my mother: she was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month, he must have been a happy man.
BIOGRAPHY
Shannon picked up the bass at age 15 after playing violin for eight years. Training as an orchestral musician while playing jazz and studying at the Victorian College of the Arts, he began working with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Later he toured Europe, North America and Russia with traditional-jazz influenced punk-band The Hoodangers and to Scandinavia with The Band Who Knew Too Much. He has sometimes sizzled with the Austro-Cuban septet Sally Ford and the Pachuco Playboys, occasionally cooked mariachi-style violin in tex-mex band Texicali Rose, and readily boiled bass in The John Butler Trio. Theatre appearances include the Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2002 production of True West and Urinetown in 2004, as well as Chamber Made Opera's production of Phobia in 2006. Shannon presently steams with Deborah Conway and Willy Zigier, as well as the modern piano trio Daquqi.
Patrick Cronin is...THE STORYTELLER
Favourite Spaghetti Western Film For A Few Dollars More
Favourite Spaghetti Western Actor Franco Nero as Django
Favourite Line 'Hey Amigo, you know you’ve got a face beautiful enough to be worth 2,000 dollars?'
WHY I LOVE THIS SHOW
"For me, the Spaghetti Western Orchestra is a fantastic performance vehicle. It is a challenging show that draws on everything I’ve learnt in my twin backgrounds in music and comedy. But what gives me the greatest satisfaction is working with the guys as an ensemble. Five of us creating this layered soundscape of music, sound effects and text demands a discipline and sensitivity towards the whole performance that tempers my natural tendency toward unbridled and selfish upstaging - the SWO is good for my moral fibre. Then there is the music itself. Performing Morricone’s scores is a rich and rewarding musical experience - heroic western themes, delicate slow passages, crazed bar room honky tonk. The music is beautifully composed and a joy to play, and how else do I get to whistle for a living?”
BIOGRAPHY
Patrick has worked in theatre, comedy and music theatre with a variety of companies and performance ensembles including Melbourne Theatre Company, Chamber Made Opera, Melbourne Workers Theatre, The Cabbage Brothers and The Men Who Knew Too Much. His musical interests have taken him from 30's swing to salsa to polka to film music with such bands as Texicali Rose, Sally Ford & the Pachuco Playboys, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, The Happy Polka Boys, Melbourne Massed Gospel Choir and Spaghetti Western Orchestra.
As a freelance creative producer and consultant for festivals and events, Patrick has worked for numerous organisations including the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Victorian Arts Centre, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Victoria's Centenary of Federation, Arts Victoria and Cirque du Soleil.
Director & Designer : DENIS BLAIS
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Denis was born in Gatineau, Quebec and raised in Canada.
He studied journalism, set design and editing at Algonquin College, Ottawa Ontario Canada and Communications and at Ottawa University. Denis worked as a club DJ for over 20 years in Detroit, Ottawa, Bonn, Cologne and Berlin.
Denis was the co-founder of the Belgo Restaurants in London, UK. He manages concert pianist James Rhodes.
The Spaghetti Western Orchestra show is his directorial debut. In the spring of 2007 he worked with SWO in Melbourne - where he stage designed / co-choreographed / and co-designed the lighting for the show.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
No soundtracks have ever helped so much a series of film deliver and define its genre as much as the EM scores for Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns. The musical imagery was completely woven into the visual psyche of the viewer.
These reflections brought me to the concept: what if musical scores were to come to life. Not in visual adaptations; but in surreal live performance. A reincarnation of pauses, grunts, notes and gestures.
In the days of Silent Movies the musical scores were played live. The actors on the screen looked somewhat ghostly and over exposed in their white make up and black eyeliner features. The musical narrative was imperative to the atmosphere of the film. There was a certain magic in that. So I thought physical theatre/comedy. Big Shadows. That’s what the sounds look and feel like. But what about the great facial expressions? If we were to go into large concert halls and theatres, how were we to be able to pick up those smirks and grimaces? I remembered the Robert Wilson panto/operetta’s performances, I had gone to see, such as Black Rider and Woycezk, seated in row Y or X. I could see almost every detail because of one thing: the make up. Then I went back to look at old silent movies and felt that I had found, in part, the solution. I felt it completely unnecessary to have projected film to assist the concerts. We are always spoon fed everything today and too often we leave a show feeling lazy and unsurprised by the explicitness of the whole experience. It’s the old problem of adaptation. How many times do they turn a book into a film only for the reader to be severely disappointed. It falls simply on the fact that we IMAGINED it differently when we read it. Yes we created our very own visual landscape. So it should be with The Spaghetti Western Orchestra concert.
We must drive the imagination and stir the souls of past memories. Let the audience dream and try to remember when they first saw the films: where they were, what scene was this in, what it felt like.
We will have visual effects but they will not be used as cerebral imagery fillers. They will take the shape of large colour fields and figurative shadows.
The stage set is a blank page: white cyclorama and white stage floor. The story is told as you perform it. It absorbs the performance and casts long exaggerated shadows like the grunts and squeaks you emit. You leave a very large visual footprint through the music and atmosphere you create. The three large orange acrylic discs look like giant gel-like cymbals. They push the constant elegiac tryptonic themes Leone was so obsessed with: innocence, death and revenge. Think of the TRILOGY: Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
So it is with this train of thought that we position an invisible story line. The word invisible conjures shadows and spirits. The musicians are five ghosts/spirits that were left in the visual graveyard coming back to spook or should I say enchant us into a state of time regained/borrowed and buried. Enter: STORYTELLER, BANKTELLER, LIETELLER, GOLDSCHMELLER AND YOUNGFELLER.
lighting designer : KEITH TUCKER
sound design : STEPH O’HARA
producer : GLYNIS HENDERSON
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If you would like to get up to date news on the Orchestra or send us feedback......
please email info@ghmp.co.uk
COMMENTS FROM THEATRES AND AUDIENCE
I saw the SWO show last night in Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland. I was
totally impressed. The show was amazing, breathtaking, brilliant,
smashing etc. I'm still shivering, shaking, smiling and so so so happy
after the memorable evening. Thank you ever so much!
Inga-Katriina Heinonen, Helsinki, Finland
We wholeheartedly recommend the work of your band to our readers.
Keep up the great work.
Nick Joy
Reviewer and Features Writer - Film Score Monthly
I became aware of SWO, after seeing them on Jools Holland's show. Have watched them time and time again. Absolutely stunning !. It would be amazing to see them for real.
Michael Wilkins
My husband and I heard the SW Orchestra on the BBC and your
spot on Jools Holland!
We are now bursting to see SWO live!
Cheers
Alma
Just seen the band on Jools Holland - blew me away, absolutely brilliant!
Marjorie Watters
We've just got back home after seeing your concert at Chalons-en-Champagne....what a fabulously entertaining evening. We couldn't get over how multi-talented all the musicians are. It's been a long time since we've seen anything as good as this.
Bill and Ruth Moore
Saw you on Jools Holland last night and thought you were great.
Lisa Bunce
I saw the SWO perform tonight in Nantes, France, and absolutely loved the performance. My cheeks hurt afterward from smiling and laughing so much! I've never had so much fun at a concert.
Kate Thomas
Saw the Orchestra on Jools Holland and was stunned….absolutely brilliant, so sorry I missed their live performance.
John Stewart
How fantastic the show was...congratulations - they really are a lovely group of people.
Tanya Carinci - Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
Great show! Loved every minute.
Leigh Chandler - Head of Marketing at Flynn Centre, Burlington, USA
I loved it!
Philip Morris - Director at Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, USA
Their antics are dramatic and comedic while the music is performed beautifully. I believe this is going to go down in Cowan Center history as one of everyone’s favorites.
Susan Tomae-Morphew - Director at the Cowan Center, Tyler, USA
LATEST PRESS QUOTES
The musicians are amazing. A true spectacle.
Angelo Foletto, La Repubblica, Italy
Spaghetti Western Orchestra is a miracle.
Corriere della Sera, Italy
An endearing, impressive show.
The Guardian, UK ****
Take the magnificent music of Ennio Morricone, add five multi-talented, unashamedly theatrical Australians with impeccable comedy timing and let them loose on 100 instruments and you have some idea of Spaghetti Western Orchestra.
A joyous celebration.
London Evening Standard, UK ****
It is amazing that these five performers manage to get the enormous sound that would not shame any soundtrack of a Leone epic. Multi-skilled in every musical department, they are also great comedians, singers and actors who summon up the world of Morricone and Leone with consummate ease.
Classicalsource.com
SWO dazzled with a number of Foley sequences, in which they mimicked the creation of sound effects for the films. A gunfight sequence was magical, with sounds coming from boxes of cereal, collard greens and cabbages, wooden clogs, nail files and a frog clicker.
Times Union, Schnectady, NY
If Pink Floyd met Frank Zappa and the Blue Man Group over a few sarsparillas and a fist-fight in a saloon, the aftermath would result in the gritty, retro-jazz-cat collective known as the Spaghetti Western Orchestra.
Edward Burke (AKA DJ Seamus) on WWPV 88.7-FM “The Mike” 29 Oct 2009
An absolute delight.
Classic 963fm, Canada
Brilliant comedic timing...a total charmer from start to finish.
Outreach Connection, Canada
A moving, cheeky and hilarious hommage to the genius of Morricone.
Le Parisien, France
Inspiring and brilliantly performed. This show grabs you by the collar and shoves your nose into the dust of the desert.
Commeacinema.com
One of the most inventive and refreshing shows. Wake up Ennio, these five nuts are singing your tune!
TSFJazz.com
So much more than a concert, this is an hilarious and inventive show.
AFP (National French Press Agency)
Unmissable!
Night Life, France
As good as watching the movies themselves.
Le Devoir, Canada
The Spaghetti Western Orchestra takes Morricone’s magnificent works further than just the playing of music in a way that is thoroughly remarkable. Don't miss this magical performance.
Die Welt, Germany
A witty collage of stylised film dialogue, improvised soundtracks and sound effects. A masterpiece of first class arrangements of Ennio Morricone’s music, lovingly interspersed film quotations, and stunning acoustic and visual gags. Fully loaded musical theatre done to perfection. Don’t miss it!
Hamburger Abendblatt, Germany
‘Ayayaaaaaayyyyyhh!’ – The Spaghetti Western Orchestra is both hilarious and deadly serious.
Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Germany
Simply fantastic and a must-see show.
The Age, Australia
Pure performance - music, drama and comedy - musicianship and arrangements of the highest order.
The List, UK
That the musicians perform with the enormous gravity of a Mozart symphony only serves to make this extraordinary show all the funnier.
The Guardian, UK
Compelling theatricality and kaleidoscopic range of moods, from slapstick hilarity to authentically creepy menace. An inspired show.
The Scotsman, UK
A fistful of moody and magnificent interpretations.
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
You will marvel at their ingenuity.
Metro, UK
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“The Spaghetti Western Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts”
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